Kick your sneakers off and relax~ Guy General Discussion Thread

Welcome aboard!

Wish I could get to be your spare! hehehe

Will do once i figured out how to record it on PC :smiley: gotta start saving some replays as well.

Make a trip to America.

Well I’m currently Rank B with Guy but I’m not on the level I want to be at and I need more training. My next goal is to get at A or B+ rank but I’m not ready yet. Is any fellow Guy players willing to train with me?

Rank doesn’t matter since online play can’t always show your best effort, offline will though.

I had a question for everyone, just curious as a fellow Guy player about something.

Guy by no means is top tier, and frankly not even THAT good, but why do you guys stick with him? Why are you even drawn to the character? For me my reason has NOTHING to do with street fighter at all. I really liked Guy in Final Fight 3, I thought he looked cool and was fun to play with and was fast. I enjoyed bouncing all around the screen with him and kicking all sorts of ass with him. Once I found out he was being used in the street fighter universe the rest is history. I just like the character and think his moves are cool and he looks dope, and come on…he’s a freakin ninja with sneakers lol. very shallow reasons i know

because of that, it doesn’t matter how good guy is, i could give a damn about tier lists, he’s my character and I plan to use him in every fighting game he’s in ever until the day i die. I guess I was just wondering what your stories were and why you even like and continue to stick it out with a poor not popular character. Just wanted to know some reasons why you guys like the character since mine are so shallow

Final Fight, Alpha series, there is nothing else that needs to be said. Also he’s a ninja and I’ve grown such a high liking to Ninjas that I play almost every ninja in videogames, with Kung Fu being a second place pick.

Final fight for me. The game came out before i was born(lol) but I played it on emu when i was about 6 yrs old. I was like wow this spinning kick shit is so cool even though it cost some HP to use iirc. Shame that its sf4 counterpart sucks though :frowning:

Plus when I was younger i used to play some old sf games(never play alpha though) on emu as well but I only know how to do hadouken and hard attack,also i thought that when u do 2-3 hadouken srk will come out lmao never won a single round vs the CPU :frowning: so when I learned that there’s SF4AE out for PC I went to youtube to see how the game is,saw that guy is in the game and then i watched some kiryu’s fights and thats it.

Now I’m having a lot of fun playing him and I dont regret picking him as my main :smiley:

Guy next to Dudley is the only character that I enjoy playing in this game
I have been maining Dudley since super - but I have been getting frustrated with capcom in the
way that they have handled Dudley. He is so easy to shut down if you know the match up - its stupid

i have been playing guy on and off and I am loving it - been doing fairly good
Is guy getting some good changes? Should I stick with dudley since its my best character?

Just wondering what are some Guy’s pros and cons?

As of 2012.

High damage/Stun output with little to no meter especially in the corner and punishes.
Anti air game is average, you’ll normally have to spend a meter for bigger damage, TK Izuna/EX Tatsu. But his normals that may be used as Anti air are generally sufficient.
Decent normals, nothing to crazy or on Chun li status but still on par.
Rush Down game is alright in terms of pressure the only way to be safe is with a FADC on either lp or mp hozanto which only brings you to +1, you basically have to be unorthodox and pick your spots well to put on the offensive pressure especially with frametraps and tick throws. As Bushin Flip Elbow and Run overhead can be avoided by low profile moves. Or even reacted to.
Air to Air is alright, he has Air Izuna, Elbow and a few normals to compensate him though some character can beat his options.
Air normals are a bit of a fluke, most can be avoided via low profile moves especially Elbow, only j,mp and j.hk inputted deep will beat them.
Ultras have better usage now as well as his throw game.
He has to get in to basically do anything really, he has the tools to do so but utilizing them and sufficiently getting in is a hard task against zoners and most of your metagame will be shutdown by grapplers, because they can simply mash SPD through your blockstrings and nab you or if you make one simple mistake.

Basically playing Guy can be a task, make one mistake and you can easily lose and getting your momentum back is no walk in the park.

Anyone else felt it’s awesome to play guy again with new patch? Before I felt stuck and not wanting to practise but now it feels alot more fun some fixes and some bugs still in there, but in general alot more fun to play.

Ahhh Nooo guy’s ex tatsu now beats juri’s cr.mk. Matchup just got a little harder. Re-learning guy again for 2012, along with e.ryu. I think guy is just overall really strong now. I’m looking forward to getting back into him.

Though I think Guy’s Cr mk doesn’t get it, I may be mistaken.

But since I know a few characters Juri for example does her Focus Attack hit Guy now when he does cr rh or run/slide?

Kiryu updated his blog with his opinions on match-up for Guy in AE 2012 here http://angelicgarden.net/blog/archives/90#more-90.

I’ll leave this here for anyone interested. btw I do not know japanese so I just google translated it :stuck_out_tongue:

I guess all those +/- mean a little more/less than the number listed. ie Ryu : 4- would mean ~3.75 : 6.25 in Ryu’s favor etc.

[details=Spoiler]Ryu : 4 -
Ken: 4 -
Honda: 4
Ibuki: 4 +
Makoto: 4 +
Dudley: 5 (he’s not sure about it yet)
Seth: 4
Gouken: 6
Akuma: 4 -
Gen: 4 +
Dan: 6
Sakura: 3 +
Juri: 4 -
Chun Li: 4 +
Dhalsim: 4
Abel: 5
Viper: 5 -
Vega(I assume he meant Dictator here): 4 +
Sagat: 5 -
Cammy: 4
Dee Jay: 4 + (he’s not sure about it yet)
Cody: 4
Guy: -
Hakan: 6
Guile: 5 -
Blanka: 4 +
Zangief: 4
Rufus: 4
El Fuerte: 5 -
Balrog(I assume he meant Claw here): 5
Bison(I assume he meant Boxer here): 4
Feilong: 3
T. Hawk: 4 -
Adon: 4
Rose: 4 +
Yun: 3
Yang 3 -
E.Ryu: 4
Oni: 5 (he’s not sure about it yet)
[/details]

Interesting to see that he listed Hakan MU in Guy’s favor. Personally,I have a shittons of troubles playing against grapplers :frowning:

From what i’ve seen I’m pretty sure Boxer’s still whiffs

I don’t understand what Kiryu means by it, but if anyone knows Japanese aside from Google Translate it’d be a big help on understanding what this means.

I had Ex tatsu whiff on a jumping blanka earlier. I guess the extra added frame doesn’t mean much if the same shit happens. Does blanka have an unblockable against guy or something?After back throw they dash forward into jumping Mk or whatever it is. I got hit every time.

Ryu and Honda feel harder to fight. Sim too.

Yeah he has an unblockable against Guy, you just have to time your block at the point of impact to guard it. Hopefully Ryu isn’t to damn hard… >> I know a lot of Ryu player and barely any Hondas.